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Show posts MenuQuote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 27, 2015, 04:32:46 PMQuote from: Griffin NoName on March 27, 2015, 01:24:49 AMNot everyone believes it's real (thanks to)[, and] those in power who couldn't care less who get's screwed so long their shares in oil and gas industries go up. Not only everyone would have to be conscious of the problem (not easy with the "reeducation" from the oil & gas henchmen) but ready to act upon a threat that [supposedly] will take years to materialize. Ignorance and our right malice play a role in our natural long term stupidity on that one.
It's like climate change; everyone agrees it is coming, but no one behaves as if it really is.
Quote from: Aggie on March 27, 2015, 07:54:07 PM
Oil shares are down quite a bit at the moment, actually, although that's largely because y'all are producing a surplus of shale oil down there, thanks to fracking.
Quote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 31, 2015, 03:27:59 PM
As for oil, they were explaining how the stronger dollar is affecting the price of oil (because oil is sold only in dollars), so on one end supply got way more ample, and on the other, as the US economy got better (and the European/Japanese not) the dollar went up, the price got really low, which in turn makes fracking (and the tar sands BTW) between less profitable to non viable (in fact there is a noticeable slowdown on new fracking wells here), which eventually will push the price up.
The other element is that demand has remained between stable and weak and it isn't clear if that trend will continue or not. Theoretically the lower prices should push up demand, but OTOH even emerging markets are more conscious of global warming and/or have their economies slowing down, so it is hard to tell when the prices will go back up (unless the crazies get to power here on the next cycle and declare another war in the middle east. Still, at least two years away).
Quote from: Aggie on March 31, 2015, 05:02:40 PMAnd to continue, I'd say the Saudis are simply placing pressure on everybody else trying to bite into their business..
The oilsands are definitely less profitable at these prices (and losing money in many cases), but it's the newer, somewhat cleaner in-situ facilities that will be hit the hardest. I'm sure the big dirty open-pit dinosaurs from the 70's that are the most visible eyesores up there will keep chugging along just fine.
Low oil prices tend to translate to much less environmental work being done in the patch, as companies slash their cleanup budgets.
Some of the timing of this cycle might have more to do with geopolitical events than market economies, as the Saudis have been keeping production up to put financial pressure on Russia and Iran.
Quote from: Sibling Qwertyuiopasd on March 13, 2014, 10:19:39 PMQuote from: Sibling Zono (anon1mat0) on March 13, 2014, 09:16:30 PMWell, one answer would be that ownership/property is a lie, and doesn't really exist. Birds just live in their holes, at least as long as they are able to defend it from any other bird that might want it.Quote from: The Meromorph on March 13, 2014, 09:01:16 PMThat is an interesting discussion about property and ownership in itself, is the bird the owner of the hole in the tree where she is nesting, or the tree, or a more powerful entity claiming ownership of the forest? A lot of stuff to debate there.
I believe you will find that even real 'public space' is actually owned by some entity and at some level of abuse will be 'policed' on behalf of that entity.
I'm OK with that, but the universe doesn't care whether I'm OK with it. That's the way it is.
Granted, property becomes a thing when governments and societies say it is a thing and treat it as such. In which case I think it's basically the same story, but with some more bureaucracy. The United States Government owns all the space within the geography defined as the United States, at least as long as and insofar as it can defend it from others who want control of it (or convince them not to do it, like how Canada is unlikely to invade us and vice versa). Within that, the government gives the land to people within it, the most obvious form of this being the Homestead Act. So then it's some individual or corporation's property because they bought it from the government, or from someone else who did.
Now, I assume there are laws about defining public spaces and what that means, like a restaurant would be a public space, so public indecency laws would apply, and (if I understand non-discrimination properly) the owners couldn't bar people for the wrong reasons. Or like highways are public property, but that's more because they're owned by the government for public use, and of course have their own laws and restrictions.
Quote from: pieces o nine on October 26, 2013, 01:22:27 AM[clueless male comment ahead]
I resent males whose eyes almost audibly focus in on my chest
Quote from: offending editorialAs far as humans are concerned, you may think you know all about sexual signals, but you'd be surprised by new findings. It's been known since the 1990s that heterosexual women living together synchronize their menstrual cycles because of pheromones, but when a study of lesbians showed that they do not synchronize, the researchers suspected that semen played a role. In fact, they found ingredients in semen that include mood enhancers like estrone, cortisol, prolactin, oxytocin, and serotonin; a sleep enhancer, melatonin; and of course, sperm, which makes up only 1%-5%. Delivering these compounds into the richly vascularized vagina also turns out to have major salutary effects for the recipient. Female college students having unprotected sex were significantly less depressed than were those whose partners used condoms (Arch. Sex. Behav. 2002;31:289-93). Their better moods were not just a feature of promiscuity, because women using condoms were just as depressed as those practicing total abstinence. The benefits of semen contact also were seen in fewer suicide attempts and better performance on cognition tests.
So there's a deeper bond between men and women than St. Valentine would have suspected, and now we know there's a better gift for that day than chocolates.
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Social Security | 25% | [ ] |
Medicare/Medicaid | 23% | [ ] |
Military Spending* | 28% | [ ] |
Regulatory Agencies | 8% | [ ] |
Homeland Security | 9% | [ ] |
Education | 12% | [ ] |
Parks/Reserves etc | 0.2% | [ ] |
Science Investment | 0.5% | [ ] |
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